Worship

Key Issues

Titles

Chapters

• Celebration of Shabbat: prayer, blessing, reading of Sefer Torah, singing
• Daily Prayer
• daily prayer (set prayers, spontaneous prayer)
• daily prayers
• Daily prayers, including the use and significance of tallit
• Daily prayers, including the use and significance of tefillin
• Daily prayers, including the use and significance of yamulkah
• Expectations of behaviour and conduct insynagogues
• Festivals and Shabbat
• Havdalah (division)
• How synagogues help with the upbringing of children and keeping the family together
• Importance of the Talmud and rabbinic tradition
• leaders of worship and the community: Chazan
• leaders of worship and the community: lay leaders
• leaders of worship and the community: Rabbi
• Magen David (shield/star of David)
• Minyan
• modern pilgrimage to the Western Wall
• modern pilgrimage to the Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial)
• Ner Tamid (eternal light)
• People: rabbi
• prayer
• Prayer and contemplation
• Prayer and study of the Torah in the home
• Rabbinical judgements on contraception
• ritual dress - Kippah (Yamulkah, Capel)
• ritual dress - tallit (prayer shawl)
• ritual dress - tefillin (phylacteries)
• ritual dress - tzizit (fringes)
• Sabbath preparations
• Sabbath worship
• Shabbat
• Shabbat and Festival observances related to work and recreation
• Shabbat observance
• Shabbat observance: challot
• Shabbat observance: havdalah
• Shabbat observance: kiddush
• Shabbat observance: meal
• Shabbat observance: preparation
• Shabbat observance: rest
• Shabbat observance: synagogue worship
• Shabbat worship in the synagogue and the home
• Shabbat: creation; celebration and observance at home and the synagogue
• Significance and use of: kippah
• Significance and use of: mezuzah
• Significance and use of: tallit (tzitzit)
• Significance and use of: tefillin
• Symbols of belonging: kippah, tallit, tefillin, star of David
• Tallit and tefillin
• the absence of any representations of God
• The architecture and other main features of a synagogue and the reasons for them
• The architecture and other main features of a synagogue and the reasons for them.
• The architecture of the synagogue
• The building's design and function
• the design and artefacts of a synagogue, especially Aron Hakodesh (ark)
• the design and artefacts of a synagogue, especially Sefer Torah (scrolls)
• the design and artefacts of a synagogue, especially their ornaments, bimah (reading desk)
• The design, furniture, furnishings, artefacts and symbolism of places of worship
• the different ways in which the synagogue is used by the community
• The importance of Shabbat
• The Leaders of the community with special reference to the rabbi and chazan (cantor)
• the mezuzah and other ritual objects
• the minyan for communal prayer
• the nature of pilgrimage in Judaism
• The place, purpose and value of pilgrimage
• The practice and significance of brit milah (mohel, sandek)
• The purpose and effect of symbolism in places of worship
• The reasons for differences in places of worship and forms of worship among Jews
• The role and function of the rabbi in the synagogue and the community
• The role and function of the synagogue in the local Jewish community
• The role of the rabbi and chazan (cantor)
• the role of the synagogue and the community in caring for people
• the role pilgrimage might play in the spiritual development of Jews
• The roles of rabbi, cantor, scribe, shochet and mohel within Jewish society.
• The roles of the home and synagogue
• the roles of the rabbi and chazan (cantor)
• the Siddur: use for prayer
• The synagogue
• the synagogue (modelled on the Temple), its design and symbolism
• The synagogue: A place of assembly, prayer and study
• The synagogue: Internal features: aron hakodesh)
• The synagogue: Internal features: bimah
• The synagogue: Internal features: menorah
• The synagogue: Internal features: ner tamid
• The synagogue: Internal features: seating
• The synagogue: Internal features: sefer torah
• The synagogue: Internal features: siddur
• The synagogue: Internal features: ten commandments
• The synagogue: Internal features: yad/breastplate/mantle
• the use of music and art in Jewish worship
• The use of symbols and aids to worship
• the ways in which Jews use symbols and artefacts in their worship
• The ways in which symbols are used to express Jewish belief
• Worship in the home: Shabbat (kiddush, havdalah); daily prayers
• Worship in the synagogue and in the home
• Worship in the synagogue: daily services/prayers/blessings
• Worship in the synagogue: form (Orthodox/Reform)
• Worship in the synagogue: use of the Torah